Using the Smart Watch App

1. Mount the watch on the rod

Items needed: Android Watch with watch band
still on, fly rod, 3 inch rubber band. (if your watch doesn't have an internal speaker, you
can pair it with Bluetooth earbuds or a Bluetooth speaker to hear
your casts.)

Step 1: Loop the rubber band a couple times
at the front of the rod grip.

Step 2: Place the watch on top of the blank and
pull its watch-band back under the rubber band.

Step 3: Grip the rod with a thumb-on-top gripe style. Hold the
watch band down against the grip with your thumb.

2. Launch Skill Shaper

Install it, if you have not already done so and click on its
icon:

3. Select a different skill (optional)

If you want to change the type of feedback for SkillShaper to
produce, scroll the watch screen upwards and select one of the
checkboxes that appear.

"Main Stroke" is the default skill setting,
selected automatically if you don't change it by hand.
SkillShaper will reflect the force (acceleration) of your rod along
the path of your cast, throughout your whole stroke. The more the
force: the higher the pitch and louder the sound will be.
Being able to make your strokes start slowly and accelerate smoothly
to a crisp stop is the key to an efficient cast. It translates into
making longer casts with less effort.

"Stops" To focus on how well you are stopping your strokes, check the "Stops"
skill. There will now be no sound during the the main portions of
your back- and fore-casts, but you will hear it when you put on the
brakes at the end of each stroke.
Sharper stops make higher pitched sounds than looser ones. And other
things being equal, the cast with a sharper stop will be one with a
tighter loop. Controlling the size of your loops by controlling the
crispness of your stops is a critical skill, especially when casting
in a wind or reaching for distance.

"Straight Line" If you want to hear it when
your stroke is veering sideways, select the "Sideways"
skill option. Now you will hear a high-pitched tone as the rod
veers to one side or the other of your main stroke. To develop the
muscle memory of a straight cast stroke, practice casting until you
hear no sound at all.

4. (Coming up) Pair with a smart phone

With upcoming versions, the watch can be paired with a phone and stream its accelerometer
data via Bluetooth in real time where the phone can store the data
for later study.

You might do this for several reasons:

1. No speaker. Your Smart Watch does not have an
internal speaker. A phone can play the sounds while you cast. An
alternative to this is to pair a Bluetooth speaker with your watch.

2. More volume. You want the sound to be louder
than the watch speakers can make - perhaps so others can hear your
casts while you are casting.

3. Data.
If you want a data file of casting
sessions for later review and analysis. The phone app can create a
text file from the sensor data and send it to your email account.
There you can store it, look it over, and perhaps analyze it with
our SkillShaper Desktop Analysis app.

5. Start a casting session

Press the green START button. This turns on the accelerometer in
the watch, starts the sound-playing program and if the watch is
paired with a phone, starts streaming the data to the phone.
As you start moving the rod around, you will hear it, and you will
see numbers changing on the screen. These are the accelerometer
readings (in gravity units) on the 3 axes of space relative to the
watch face: left/right, up/down and close/far.

Begin casting - and listen to your movements.

6. Stop a session

Press the red button labelled STOP

If you had been paired with a smart phone, you can send a data
file for the session to your desktop for later review and analysis.

Go to the phone screen and press the SEND button at the bottom of
the screen. Wait a few seconds while the phone's app processes the
data and creates a data file attachment.

Then follow the on-screen instructions to email the data to the
email address of your choice.

Be sure to obey the "Pease Wait" messages before
proceeding at each step!